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- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
- Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
- The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
- There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946), Penrod (1914)
- I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989
- All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
- Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
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